Obama scrapes bottom of barrel for ambassadors

2:30 PM,
Feb. 19, 2014

Written by

Margaret Carlson

I went to Wikipedia to find out. I looked up George Tsunis, President Barack Obama's nominee to be ambassador to Norway, who embarrassed himself at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last month. But Tsunis is such an outlier that he doesn't even have a Wikipedia page.

But Norway does. And had Tsunis bothered to look, he wouldn't have mistaken that monarchy for a republic. He might not have called the Progress Party an extremist group with fringe elements. ...